McDaniel College

What are the graduation rates for students at McDaniel College?

McDaniel's reported six-year graduation rate is 63% for the applicable first-time, full-time undergraduate cohort. Its four-year rate is 56%. These measures follow students who began together and completed a degree within the stated period; they are not the graduation rate for every undergraduate, transfer student, or graduate student.

The reported first-year retention rate is 76%, meaning roughly three-quarters of the measured entering group returned for the following year. Retention and graduation answer different questions: a student may remain enrolled after one year yet take longer to finish, transfer elsewhere, or leave later. Students comparing colleges should also consider whether their intended major's course sequence, transfer-credit evaluation, and financial plan make their own target graduation timeline realistic.

What is the earning potential for graduates at McDaniel College?

College Scorecard field-of-study figures describe reported earnings about one year after completion for particular programs, not a salary promised by a McDaniel degree. Among the reported figures, accounting is $55,898 and business administration is $52,841; psychology is $35,153 and biology is $24,715.

These are program-level measures for the federally aided graduates included in the Scorecard's earnings methodology, rather than all alumni. They reflect earnings at an early career point and can be affected by occupation, location, work hours, graduate enrollment, and the size of a program's reporting group. Students should not compare a one-year figure with a midcareer salary estimate or interpret a field's figure as what every graduate receives.

McDaniel offers individual and group career counseling, résumé help, interview preparation, employer contacts, job-search resources, and alumni networking opportunities. Those services are useful to investigate, but their availability is not itself evidence of a particular employment or earnings outcome. An internship is not required of every student.